Directions for autos from north, east, south, or west. Pay parking underground is located on the Wood Street side of the library. Wood Street is one-way eastbound. Use the first ramp for the parking garage.

Collection Description

The Dallas Public Library has one of the largest genealogy collections in the South. It includes 111,700 volumes, 64,500 microfilms, 89,000 microfiche, and over 700 maps.[1] This includes state and county marriage, probate, deed, and tax abstracts in book form, or microfilm of originals for some states. Federal censuses 1790-1930, printed indexes 1790-1850, Soundex indexes on microfilm (1880-1930). The Ancestry Library edition database is available only at the library, but Dallas Morning News Archive, America's Obituaries, Handbook of Texas, Heritage Quest Online, Texas Digital Sanborn Maps, and WorldCat can be used on home computers with a DPL library card number. The collection also includes military records from the Revolutionary War to World War II, Civil War regimental histories, statewide births, mariages, and deaths such as Massachusetts town records, and Charleston, SC, deaths 1821-1926, Filby's Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, NARA microfilmed passenger arrival lists 1820-1950s, Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950, and local-state-regional naturalization indexes. The Dallas Genealogical Society has also contributed census mortality schedule transcripts for Dallas County 1850-1870, district court minutes 1846-1855, and an online list of Dallas County cemteries.[3]

New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, national in scope. Over 100 million name database, of vital records, genealogies, journals, over 200,000 books, 100,000 microfilms, and over 20 million manuscripts with emphasis on New England and New York since the 1600s.

New York Public Library Genealogy Division has an outstanding collection of American history at national, state and local levels; international genealogy and heraldry in Roman alphabets; Dorot Jewish collection; photos; New York censuses, directories, and vital records.